Powder holder



, SCHUELKE. ET AL POWDER HOLDER Filed July 10 1925 Patented F eb.9,1926.

UNITED sTA-rs PATENT, OFFICE.

EMIL SGEUELKIQ AND JULIUS ROSS, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TOTHE NAPIER 00., OT? MERIDEN, CDNNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

t POWDER HOLDER.

Application filed July 10, 1925. Serial No. 42,650.

Q '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that we, EMiL SCHUELKE andJULIUS Ross, citizens of the United States, residing at Meriden, in thecounty of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Powder Holders; and we do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings andthe characii) ters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this application and represent, in-

Fig. 1 a plan View of a vanity-box showi5 iiig our improvedpowder-holder located therein. i

Fig, 2a sectional View on the line 2- of Fig. 1, enlarged.

Fig. 3 a plan view of the powder-holder, detached. I

Fig. 4: an edge view of the same. I Fig. 5 a sectional view on the line5-5 of Fig. 3, enlarged. i

Fig. 6 a plan view of the shiitter, detached. This invention relates toimprovement in powder-holders particularly adapted for vanity-boxes ofthe type of powder-holder which consists of a top with openings therein,through which powder is extruded. The object of this invention is toprovide means for extruding the powder, and the invention consists inproviding a shutter with blades adapted to force powder through theopenings.

to provide means for firmly locating a powder-container in a vanity-box,and the invention consists in mounting; a shutter the under-side of aperforated top1-plate, forming this shutter with radialblades and proi0viding the-box with a springarm adapted to till engage with theunder-side wall otia vanityboX,-all as hereinafter described andparticularly recited in the claim.

In carry ng out our invention, we emplo iiig flange 11. The plate isformed with a plurality of powder-openings '12 and with a concentricslot 13. Connected with the un-v so dei'face of the to -plate is ashutter 14:

1? which projects upward through the slot -tial, spring-locking arm 21,formed at its A further object of the invention is.

a container comprising a top-plate 10, preterably conoaved, and adownwardly-extend 13 and by which the shutter may be rotated. '55 Powderhaving been placed in the container, the container is closed by a back18 preferably bowed, andattached to this back is a spring-locking bar19, the ends of which project slightly beyond the edges of" theback-plate and are adapted to enter and engage with bayonet 'grooves 20formed in opposite sides of the .fiange 11. Attached to the outer edgeof the container is a tangen- 66 outer end with an inwardly-oflisetfinger 22. In the normal position, this'spring stands at a tangent tothe container, but is' pressed toward the container to adapt it to be inI serted into a vanity-box 23, the finger 22 springing outward to engagewith an annulJar shoulder 24, near the upper edge of the By' rotatin theshutter by means of the finger-piece I l, powder in the container will ibe forced by the blades 16 upward through the openings 12 in suitablequantity, these openings 12, however, being closed when the shutter isin either of its extreme-positions, but when moved in one direction willforce a suilicielnt amount bf powder upward through the openings, inposition to be removed by the usual puff. With this construction, thepowder-0on tainei' is firmly held in a. vanity-box, but can be freelyremoved when desired, as the fingers 17 and 22 may be caught by thenails of the thumb and first finger, so as to move the end of the spring21 toward the side ofthe container and clear the shoulder 24. in thebox. When in place, the spring provides sufficieiit friction, so thatthe container is not moved bythe turning of the shutter..

A powder-holder, comprising a top-plate formed with openings and with aconcentric slot and havin a downwardly-extending, flange provide withbayonet grooves, a shutter bearing against the under-face of thetop-plate, formed with slots, the edges of which form downwardly-turnedblades, and a back-plate fitting within said flange and provided with atransverse bar, the ends of which engage with said bayonet grooves.

In testimony whereof, we have signed this specification.

EMIL SCHUELKE. JULIUS ROSSL

